InfoSec Handlers Diary Blog

This month we got patches for 59 vulnerabilities total. None of them have been previously disclosed nor are being exploited according to Microsoft.

Amongst 9 critical vulnerabilities, its worth mentioning the remote code execution one which affects Microsoft XML Core Services (CVE-2019-1060). To exploit this vulnerability, an attacker would have to convince a user to access a specially crafted website designed to invoke MSXML through the web browser. When Internet Explorer parses the malicious content, the attacker could run malicious code remotely on users’s system.

There is also a critical remote execution vulnerability Windows Remote Desktop Client (CVE-2019-1333). To exploit this vulnerability, an attacker would have to force the user to connect to a malicious server or compromise a legitimate server to host the malicious code on it, and wait for the users to connect.